By my own admission, I am not the best PvPer in the world. My preferred style of gameplay is hammering as many number keys as I can in the shortest time available, while ignoring any notion of a global cool down. I'd probably be better off sticking to one ability and blaster whipping everyone to death, to be honest. Nevertheless, I continue to play, bolstered by my guildies and leeching death blows, when I can, from the vastly more skilled allies that are unfortunate enough to be in a warzone with me.
As only level 50 players will be flung together in war zones now, I find it slightly worrying that a large subset of the Imperial population on my server will now be far nearer BattleMaster than the Republic faction and hence may be blessed with kit far superior to my own. I'm wondering if it's even worth me poking my head round the virtual door of a warzone, for fear of having it instantly removed from my shoulders by the first mighty Imp who deems it appropriate that I am worthy to die by whatever skill first comes into reach of a liesurely digit.
I am quite surprised that Bioware have not already taken the bold decision to completely undo the events brought about by the latest patch. The longer term considerations of having either side effectively powerlevelled at over 500 valor per minute (I have seen the screenshots to prove this, although it has already disappeared from Imageshack) don't paint a pretty picture for a healthy PvP future.
Of course, it is quite reasonable to suggest that this entire situation is the fault of the player population. I completely agree that each and every one of the people who willfully benefited from this unforeseeable, unlikely exploit of a perfectly designed PvP arena should possibly be burnt at the stake or should at least suffer a public flogging. After all, if I left an inexhaustible bucket of money unguarded in the street and people kept coming to take it, I would also proclaim that this is not how I intended my bucket to be used and that they should stop. However, I would only deliver my proclamation after they had taken my money for over 6 hours and potentially put my country's economy into crisis.
To be serious for a moment, the damage has been done so I guess it's either time to: suck it up, admit the slight faux pas and rollback or leave it as is and deal with the after effects, for which I won't bother to speculate because it's all subjective anyway.
Tough call. I hope you take the decision to back out the patch and the player progression since and I hope that the player population can recognise that leaving the situation as is may have the potential to ruin the game for everyone in the (not so) long run.
Note to self: faith is a good thing but ultimately requires that you deliver up front. Ensure that you only commit your faith in monthly terms, instead of 6 months, in future
